Second language vocabulary acquisition from language input and from form-focused activities

By B. Laufer. Language Teaching, 2009

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Vocabulary learning through reading: Does an ELT course book provide good opportunities? (2010, background): “Research continues into the relative importance of language input and instructional techniques on vocabulary acquisition, pointing thus far to an important role for both in the language classroom (see Laufer, 2009).”
Comparing the effect of teacher codeswitching with English-only explanations on the vocabulary acquisition of Chinese university students: A Lexical Focus-on-Form study (2012, background): “Laufer (2003) argues that to build up an adequate L2 lexicon entirely through, for example, reading for pleasure, takes too long and, in her (Laufer, 2009) assessment of vocabulary acquisition research, demonstrates the superiority of various types of intentional learning over incidental learning.”
The effects of word exposure frequency and elaboration of word processing on incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition through reading (2012, background): “…reading occurs (Nagy et al., 1987; Pitts et al., 1989), and, together with more recent research, has established the widely held view that vocabulary acquisition is a gradual and incremental process during which word knowledge develops from more to less partial (Laufer, 2009; Schmitt, 2008).”